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From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
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Subject: Re: xmodem help needed
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Date: 1 Mar 89 04:24:22 GMT
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Mannie@cup.portal.com writes:
>   Isn't it funny how everyone knows how to USE XModem and no one
>knows how it works?  (Transfer protocols are the most closely guarded
>secrets among programmers it seems)

    It may be true of x-modem (which, actually, I don't know how to use) but
    Kermit's protocol is extensively described in documentation available for
    download from Columbia University.  I'd be interested in knowing whether
    XModem is as secure a protocol as Kermit -- the brief descriptions I've
    heard of it, compared with the description of Kermit, suggest that it isn't.

    A. Milne